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SpaceLoft
American commercial suborbital rockets marketed by Up Industries. Data given is for first-launched prototype.
AKA: SpaceLoft XL-1. Status: Active. Payload: 9.00 kg (19.80 lb). Thrust: 45.00 kN (10,116 lbf). Gross mass: 200 kg (440 lb). Burn time: 14 s. Height: 4.88 m (16.01 ft). Diameter: 0.22 m (0.71 ft). Apogee: 130 km (80 mi).
Up Industries marketed launches from Spaceport America in New Mexico for commercial / scientific microgravity research, in-space payload release, meteorological research, atmospheric studies, and university space-launch programs (click here for more regarding educational opportunities. Their turnkey service included complete on-land recovery of experiments and data. Launches were offered for 'hundreds of dollars' and it was said that 16 launches had been booked through the end of 2007.
Payload: 9.00 kg (19.80 lb) to a 130 km altitude.
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| SpaceLoft XL American single-stage commercial sounding rocket. Operational, first launch 2006.09.25. |
Country:
USA.
Propellants:
Solid.
Agency:
UP Aerospace,
Up Industries.
Bibliography:
2.
2006 September 25 - .
20:14 GMT - .
Launch Site:
Spaceport America.
LV Family:
SpaceLoft.
Launch Vehicle:
SpaceLoft XL.
FAILURE: Failure.
2007 April 28 - .
14:56 GMT - .
Launch Site:
Spaceport America.
LV Family:
SpaceLoft.
Launch Vehicle:
SpaceLoft XL.
FAILURE: Failure.
- Test / burial mission - .
Nation: USA.
Agency: UP Aerospace.
Apogee: 117 km (72 mi).
2009 May 2 - .
14:00 GMT - .
Launch Site:
Spaceport America.
LV Family:
SpaceLoft.
Launch Vehicle:
SpaceLoft XL.
- Education Launch - .
Nation: USA.
Apogee: 10 km (6 mi).
2010 May 4 - .
12:41 GMT - .
Launch Site:
Spaceport America.
LV Family:
SpaceLoft.
Launch Vehicle:
SpaceLoft XL.
- SpaceLoft SL-4 - .
Nation: USA.
Agency: UP Aerospace.
Apogee: 113 km (70 mi). Microgravity payload.
2011 May 20 - .
13:21 GMT - .
Launch Site:
Spaceport America.
LV Family:
SpaceLoft.
Launch Vehicle:
SpaceLoft XL.
- SL-5 - .
Nation: USA.
Education/burial mission.
2012 April 5 - .
14:18 GMT - .
Launch Site:
Spaceport America.
LV Family:
SpaceLoft.
Launch Vehicle:
SpaceLoft XL.
- SL-6 - .
Nation: USA.
Apogee: 117 km (72 mi). Technology.
2013 June 21 - .
13:57 GMT - .
Launch Site:
Spaceport America.
LV Family:
SpaceLoft.
Launch Vehicle:
SpaceLoft XL.
- SL-7/FOP-1 - .
Nation: USA.
Apogee: 119 km (73 mi). UP Aerospace technology mission under NASA's Flight Opportunities Program..
2013 November 12 - .
16:15 GMT - .
Launch Site:
Spaceport America.
LV Family:
SpaceLoft.
Launch Vehicle:
SpaceLoft XL.
- SL-8 - .
Nation: USA.
Apogee: 116 km (72 mi). Technology mission.
2014 October 23 - .
13:33 GMT - .
Launch Site:
Spaceport America.
LV Family:
SpaceLoft.
Launch Vehicle:
SpaceLoft XL.
- SL-9 - .
Nation: USA.
Apogee: 124 km (77 mi). Microgravity payload..
2018 September 12 - .
14:33 GMT - .
Launch Site:
Spaceport America.
LV Family:
SpaceLoft.
Launch Vehicle:
SpaceLoft XL.
- ADEPT - .
Nation: USA.
Apogee: 114 km (70 mi). Technology mission. Impacted Spaceport America, NM.
2018 September 17 - .
14:09 GMT - .
Launch Site:
Spaceport America.
LV Family:
SpaceLoft.
Launch Vehicle:
SpaceLoft XL.
- FOP-5?/Celestis - .
Nation: USA.
Apogee: 114 km (70 mi). Technology mission. Impacted Spaceport America, NM.
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